 |  | | | Leila Aboulela | 12 July 2005 | | |
On her new novel
Leila Aboulela was born in 1964 and grew up in Khartoum. Her first novel, The Translator was published to critical acclaim in 1999 and was long listed for the Orange and the IMPAC prize.
Her second novel, Minaret charts the 'coming down in the world' of Najwa, an aristocratic Sudanese woman forced into exile in Britain by a military coup.
She joins Jenni to tell us more.
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